»You couldn’t oblige me with a light, could you, guv’nor?» he said. (Novel Notes 110. 16.)
Governor stands here as a vulgar mode of address, quite corresponding to the French bourgeois. In Swedish we should say simply: han or Herrn.
In the sense of father or master, employer (The governor: »gubben»), the word is now in everyday colloquial use.
grub
»You give me my grub and a shake-down, and I’ll grumble less than’ most of ’em». (Tommy and Co. 15. 15.)
Uneducated Young man.
One of the commonest of the numerous vulgar paraphrases of food (Farmer-Henley’s Dict. of Slang and Coll. Engl. mentions about a score of them.)
to lam
»The Lord will help us. Hold him fast, and—Lam into him». (Novel Notes 163. 9.)